Humorous Quotes

If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us. ~ Middlemarch by George Eliot It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution. ~ The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates. Social meetings are periods of penance to them, and any appearance in public will unnerve them. They go much about alone, and blush when women speak to them. In truth, they are not as yet men, whatever the number may be of their years; and, as they are no longer boys, the world has found for them the ungraceful name of hobbledehoy. ~ The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it. ~ The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope "I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it." ~ The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?" ~ Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen "There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel." ~ Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope "It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something." ~ Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope "There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side." ~ Daniel Deronda by George Eliot Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities. ~ Daniel Deronda by George Eliot